SHEARING RECORDS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 July 1920, Page 4

SHEARING RECORDS.

''Adelaide Register's" Queensland correspondent reports that on Cambridge Downs Station at Richmond 26 shearers cut out 29,912 sheep in -H days, an average of over 200 shepp t)er man per day. This, says the correspondent triumphantly, is a world's record.

For a large gaug it may be, but individually the totals are nothing to boast of. It is 14 years ago since the Maori shearer, Uiahana shoio 332 Komneys in a 'working day of nine hours, and two years ago, W. Valla, a New Zealand-born Dalmatian, beat this by shearing 339 Eoinneys in the same time, Last year, while working for Mr li. B. Lotmau of Omatene he raised his tally to 347 in nine hours, and then he lost ten minutes in the forenoon. On that occasion six men in^ the shed put through I,f S7 sheep, and next day 1,705, an average of nearly 28S sheep each.

Ihe real world's record was secured at Messrs W. F. Franklins' shed at Mangatuna. when four men in a day of nine hours shore 1,212 sheep, au average of 303 each. The tail) Tvas : YV. Valla 36i, Gr. Stewart 336, S. Cope 316, Birkenshdw 212. They were mostly lambs with a fair proportion of ewes. As tho world's ''ringer W. Valla moy safely claim the licit. To she.u1 a sheep in a minute and a hail; and keep it up for nine hours will take a lot of beating-.